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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 30B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 24, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
77 vs 92
Hardware Fit
67 vs 95
Quality Score
81 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen/qwen3-vl-30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1412
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNavi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Nobara Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx qwen/qwen3-vl-30b
Tokens/sec20.324.8
First chunk4216 ms11 ms
TTFT4.2 s735 ms
Load timeN/A11.7 s
Memory usage5.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %9%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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